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Light Colored Millipede
Copyright © 2007 Lynette Schimming

Light Colored Millipede
Thompson Falls, Sanders County, Montana, USA
March 17, 2007
Soft Millipede for size reference.
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Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 18 March, 2007 - 12:41pm

This reminds us of the images
identified by Dr Rowland Shelley as Blaniulus guttulatus
… john and jane balaban, 26 March, 2007 - 6:42pm login or register to post comments

 
It could be B. guttulatus or
It could be B. guttulatus or one of several other species of like body size in the US, and it could be the indigenous species Orinisobates expressus (Chamberlin)(order Julida: family Nemasomatidae), which is also of the same size. There is no way to tell from the photo, nor could I tell if I had the actual specimen, because it is a very early juvenile as evidenced by the sizeable number of legless segments at the caudal end of the body. Rowland Shelley, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
… Rowland Shelley, 8 April, 2007 - 8:08pm login or register to post comments

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